Although this should have been done yesterday, but i was on the piss, and not one person mentions it throughout the whole day. Yesterday 14th June....30 years since the Argies surrendered the Falklands. Still this saga is going on...Will it ever be resolved? Is it time it was given to them? please log in to view this image
As long as the people who live there want to be British then we should defend their right. The Falkland Islands are actually hundreds of miles away from Argentina and it is well over a thousand miles from Stanley to Buenos Aires, so I can't for the life of me think why they think they have such a strong claim on them.
If the population of The Faulklands want it, yes. If not it's no. Maybe the Argentine governmant cannot fully grasp the concept of democracy after various dictatorships previously.
The Falklands are further away from Argentina than Sunderland is from Barcelona approximately 1150 miles
I was serving in Germany at the time but llost colleagues in the wider sense and an individual colleague in the literal sense in the Falklands. At some point unfortunately we'll have to talk to the Argentians as in the cold light of day it's in the best interests of the islanders. However the Argies need to modify their stance and we seem to be missing a trick here. The Brits have been accused of "Militarising the South Atlantic" and "provocation" ('cos one modern warship and a prince of the realm are, you know, scarey like !!). Our politicians should respond every time the Argies spout their rhetoric with a reminder to the world of "Argentian aggression" and the right of the islanders to "Self Determination" - do to them what others do to us - keep using the same expressions and eventually the propaganda sticks. (for example how many times do we hear the expression that the west is "slaughtering muslims" ?) We should be pointing out all the time that we had 40-ish Marines down there with a few SLR's and gimpies - it was their aggressive actions that militarised the area, not ours ! The UN is full of smaller nations and regions demanding self-determination and independence; lets use the tactics employed by others and get reps of the Falklanders themselves involved at the UN and elswhere. Let's not leave it to the pussies of the Foreign Office in their usual wimpy way to try and sort !
It will probably not be resolved for a very long time and, no, we should not hand them back. Our service men and women fought to keep the islands free and that idiot president of theirs can **** right off with regard to this one. What the islanders themselves want should remain paramount and until that changes there is no need to discuss sovereignty. Respect to all those who served in 1982
No its far too much fun winding up the Argies by retaining it. In all seriousness the Falklands are holding a referendum in 2013 on its political status. Whatever the people decide they want is what should be respected.
